Renewable energy posted a series of historic milestones in the United States in 2025 and into 2026. Solar and wind output hit record highs, and clean sources supplied more than a quarter of the country’s electricity for the first time. The gains came despite federal policies broadly favoring fossil fuels over clean energy.
American solar generation in 2025 ran 28% above the prior year, with output in July alone exceeding a full year of U.S. solar production from a decade earlier. In 2024, new solar installations set a record, running 21% ahead of the prior high, and 2025 ranked second overall. Texas led all states in new capacity added, followed by California; Indiana jumped to third place from fifteenth in 2023.
Wind, the country’s top renewable source, continued to set records. Last month, New England wind farms broke their regional peak output record by over 30%, a mark only six months old. Offshore capacity drove that growth. Vineyard Wind, off the Massachusetts coast, has run most of its turbines since last year, and workers recently completed blade installation on the final unit. Revolution Wind, operating in the same region, has also begun contributing electricity to New England’s grid.
In the Southwest, SunZia came online after more than two decades in development. The project spans 916 turbines in New Mexico and a 550-mile transmission line to Arizona. That makes it North America’s biggest wind installation and the most expansive renewable energy project in U.S. history.
The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project sent its initial power output to the mid-Atlantic grid while still under construction. At full capacity next year, it will rank as the country’s largest offshore wind installation.
Those additions pushed wind above 10% of total U.S. electricity generation in 2025. Solar reached roughly 9%, a fourfold increase over its 2018 share, while hydropower contributed 5.5%. Renewables exceeded 25% of U.S. output for the first time. In March 2026, clean sources generated 35% of U.S. electricity, edging out natural gas at 34.4%, according to Canary Media.
It was the first occasion on which renewables had outgenerated gas across an entire calendar month.
Analyst firm Ember found that wind and solar outproduced fossil fuels across the EU in 2025 for the first time over a full year. The IEA found that solar drove more global energy supply growth in 2025 than any other source. It accounted for over a quarter of the total increase, against a 17% contribution from natural gas. That was the first time a renewable source had led that global measure. Worldwide, wind and solar additions climbed 17% year-over-year.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects solar output will grow 17% in 2026 and wind capacity will expand by 5%.
Together, solar, wind, and battery storage represented over 90% of new U.S. power capacity installed in 2025. The EIA projects that share will reach 93% in 2026. Both underscore clean energy’s expanding share of U.S. power generation.
In the meantime, companies like Frontieras North America Inc. are redefining how solid hydrocarbons like coal are used in different use-cases. These technologies could alter the energy landscape not just in the U.S. but globally over the coming years as the energy transition gets into full gear.
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